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• MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s as though there’s been an unbroken pact from regime to regime, whether through inheritance or war, from old to new, from the vanquished to the victor:

  Under no circumstances must our citizens experience freedom. Authoritarian then, now, and forever.

  We don’t need to, but we’re gonna do it anyway.

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• Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lol as if he was ever actually elected.

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  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Definitely not, but Marxist-Leninist states like China tend to have collective leadership such that one-party authoritarianism doesn't collapse into one-man authoritarianism. Neither is especially egalitarian, but there is a difference.

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